Biography of Patch Adams

Smile therapy

May 28, 1945 Became popular all over the world thanks to the film based on his character, portrayed on screen by an overwhelming always Robin Williams, Hunter Patch Adams, is the doctor to whom we owe the invention of a special therapy: the smile. Real clown of the waiting room (a name that is not derogatory but ennobles), Adams started her Practicum dusting off the true meaning of the Hippocratic oath and giving it new meaning, namely, in the belief that "health should be an interaction with the human being is not a business transaction". Patch Adams was born on May 28, 1945 in Washington, d.c. but soon moved with his family in Northern Virginia where he attended George Washington University, where he graduated brilliantly in 1967. After the great success among the hospital wards scattered here and there, this formidable character he founded and directed the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community (a proponent of a medicine likely to take into account all aspects of being human, so even those psychological and emotional) and provided medicine for free to thousands of patients since 1971.

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